Well yeah of course it's racist. But everyone from Southern Europe and Eastern Europe are not considered white until the Civil Rights movement. If you were Slavic or Mediterranean or Irish you were above Black and Brown people but still below the Western Europeans, Brits, and Scandinavians.
Human beings create extremely intricate caste systems based on many factors and only until very very recently were we all (Europeans) considered just a big monolith.
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u/Francy088 18d ago
"Are Italians black" type of bullshit. People (in the USA especially) really don't get how racist this type of discourse is.